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To run argon2 (monero) you would need a significant amount of time to compute even one hash that means that the synchronization overhead of your workers would t
by belval 6y ago
To run argon2 (monero) you would need a significant amount of time to compute even one hash that means that the synchronization overhead of your workers would trump any "hashing speed" an IP camera (even a good 4K one) would have. By the time you get any amount of work done, the block will be processed by a regular miner and you will not get a payout. Same goes for a pool, doing any "share" of work would take too long and you would be out of sync. Hell given a bad enough ping I get refused shares on a Ryzen 3800X.
Also on top of all of that most IP cameras are designed with tightly defined specs. Trying to run a miner on them would absolutely requires stopping the video feed which would make the "attack" (which is still useless) easy to detect.
- ghayes 6y agoYou could run a SHA256 hash of random values and send it to a database in hopes of mining a Bitcoin block with it one day when the input (block hash) happens to match. It's only 2^256 times less efficient than standard mining techniques.